... underlying factor in intelligence or whether intelligence consists of a number of factors, similar to some of those postulated by Howard Gardner. The single underlying factor theory won out in ... reading new material to write a précis of that material, to explain it to yourself. In summary, explain what you are studying to yourself by writing a summary, or explain it to a fellow student. ... seven kinds of intelligence, they are: Linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, spatial intelligence, interpersonal intelligence...